Personality Types in Stress
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- Personality Types in Stress
- Type A and B
- Friedman and Rosenman
- Method
- 4. Included questions about everyday pressures such as queuing.
- 5. The interview was designed to make Type A's clear - would speak slowly or turn up late.
- 3. Personalities assessed by face-to-face interviews.
- 2. Examined for for signs of Coronary Heart Disease.
- 1. 300 men from California.
- Findings
- 1. After 8 1/2 years they re- approached participants.
- 2. Found twice as many classified Type As had died of cardiovascular problems.(12%-A, 6%-B)
- 3. Type A's all had higher blood pressure.
- Method
- Evaluation
- Ragland and Brand - Follow up Study
- Found 15% of the men had died.
- However found no evidence between Type A and Mortality.
- Myrtek: Meta analysis of 35 studies.
- Found association between CHD and a component of Type A - Hostility.
- The interview method made it more reliable.
- Could evaluate traits rather than questionnaires.
- Ragland and Brand - Follow up Study
- Traits
- Type A
- Competitive and achievement striving.
- Impatient and a time urgency.
- Hostile and aggressive.
- Type B
- Easy going.
- Stress resistant.
- Patient
- Relaxed
- Type A
- Friedman and Rosenman
- The Hardy Personality
- Kobassa
- 1. Asked them to fill out SRRS.
- 2. 150 participants were high stress, their illness records varied.
- 3. This suggested there was a third factor - hardyness.
- Evaluation
- Research
- A lot of the research is from self-report techniques.
- Some studies still lack internal validity.
- Negative Affectivity
- Hardyness correlates with NA.
- 'Hardy' people are just low on NA.
- Research
- Traits
- Control: Individual in control of their own lives rather than external factors.
- Commitment: Involved with the world around them - strong sense of purpose.
- Challenge: Problems are challenges to overcome rather than threats.
- Kobassa
- Type A and B
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